And when you say "About to begin"... You made me think I lost track of time and worked 3 days straight.

Seriously, does anyone else get thrown off by the "Liveblogs" Ars posts the day (days?) before the event? This is one of the only things that bugs me about Ars after being a reader for years, however. So great work, otherwise! Love your work, Jacqui!

And when you say "About to begin"... You made me think I lost track of time and worked 3 days straight.

Seriously, does anyone else get thrown off by the "Liveblogs" Ars posts the day (days?) before the event? This is one of the only things that bugs me about Ars after being a reader for years, however. So great work, otherwise! Love your work, Jacqui!

Oh yes. Ars should only tell us about Liveblogs 30 seconds before they start.

Since when is getting three days notice for a scheduled event somehow annoyingly long?

Seriously, does anyone else get thrown off by the "Liveblogs" Ars posts the day (days?) before the event? This is one of the only things that bugs me about Ars after being a reader for years, however. So great work, otherwise! Love your work, Jacqui!

We try to do the announcement posts one business day prior to the events. Since all of this craziness is happening on Monday, we put the announcements up spread across a couple of hours.

Now this is a sensible time. Have it on in the morning in the US so that it is in the evening in the UK, rather than the silly time Sony have chosen for their E3 event - which finishes at 4 a.m. on Tuesday here. I'll be interested to see if Apple enter the console race, either with a new Apple TV that runs iOS games with a wipe-clean wireless keyboard that is just a wider magic trackpad with analogue triggers and etched symbols, or maybe just an iPod DS.

Nobody wants a tower, We The People demand an all-in-one with even harder to replace storage and RAM. The new Retina 2 display will feature IPSS, In-Plane Switching & Storage, a miraculous revolution that will integrate the flash drive with the display panel. Benefits of this change include saving about 2 cm² of board space, and giving a vague handwavey reason for not offering larger storage without upgrading to the extra-large screen. Also, breaking your screen will destroy all your data in the same stroke, while leaving the repair price slightly higher than just buying a new machine.

What's the point of a liveblog now, given the WWDC event is now fully webcast by Apple themselves, so everyone will be watching and listening rather than reading their screen for you to tell them what they just saw for themselves.

"Waste of time" is the answer that comes to mind for us the reader, it just suits Ars to chuck some junk out to fill your site to get search-bate for some further self-promotion attention.

Yawn.

Why not instead just do a "post-keynote blog" instead, to THEN pass comment on what just happened... oh, yeah, of course we'll get that as well, of course; repeat the story 50 times for more link bate.

What's the point of a liveblog now, given the WWDC event is now fully webcast by Apple themselves, so everyone will be watching and listening rather than reading their screen for you to tell them what they just saw for themselves.

"Waste of time" is the answer that comes to mind for us the reader, it just suits Ars to chuck some junk out to fill your site to get search-bate for some further self-promotion attention.

Yawn.

Why not instead just do a "post-keynote blog" instead, to THEN pass comment on what just happened... oh, yeah, of course we'll get that as well, of course; repeat the story 50 times for more link bate.

What's the point of a liveblog now, given the WWDC event is now fully webcast by Apple themselves, so everyone will be watching and listening rather than reading their screen for you to tell them what they just saw for themselves.

"Waste of time" is the answer that comes to mind for us the reader, it just suits Ars to chuck some junk out to fill your site to get search-bate for some further self-promotion attention.

Yawn.

Why not instead just do a "post-keynote blog" instead, to THEN pass comment on what just happened... oh, yeah, of course we'll get that as well, of course; repeat the story 50 times for more link bate.

Double yawn.

Maybe everyone doesn't want to watch the video or possible cannot? Like me, who'll be in our summer house where we have an anemic 3G/2G connection with very low download allotment per month (not that it matters, considering the abysmal speed). So I'm going to enjoy following the keynote in real time, text only

ARS - liveblog system fails most of the time - I'll be over at Engadget or MacRumors during the Tim Cook standup.

You haven't seen the last few liveblogs then, their own hosted system works incredibly well (compared to the prior hosted liveblogs they had that crashed and burned every time).

Anyway, I'm at work so I really appreciate these liveblogs, it's much easier to skim through the last half hour of updates than to read the confused jumble of articles being written on the fly or have the audio going constantly.

I lost track a bit the last years. There simply is not much magic anymore in apples announcements. (Don't get me wrong retina macbooks are awesome and must have been a shitload of work but besides that?

-Smaller ipad to catch up to competition. -Icloud stuff to duplicate functions Google does better anyway and had been doing by and large for a long time. -apple maps? No comment

Most of it is safe predictable occasionally excellent (ipad mini has by far the best industrial design of any tablet) But all in all boring and playing catchup instead of driving the industry before it.

If all they announce this year are a retina ipad mini, a bigger iPhone and a cheaper iPhone to catch up with competition in these areas I wouldn't be surprised.

Oh and by the way even in people rightfully hate the "what would Steve have done" comments. It is really scary how much the apple of now feels as if it is ruled by an efficient decision maker who plays it safe instead of by someone who places big bets on the future of the company. And I am pretty sure Steve wouldn't have allowed the last ipod nano with its shit ugly user interface.